MAMI C – Results and Perspectives

The Mainz Microtron accelerator MAMI C provides a high intensity, polarized electron beam with an energy up to 1.6 GeV. Together with polarized targets, recoil polarimeters and dedicated detector systems this beam is used to measure spin observables with a precision necessary to have a significant impact on our understanding of strong interactions in the low energy regime where perturbative QCD is not applicable. In this article, an overview over selected recent results is given.